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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 7812259, member: 26302"]Don't have a picture here. I wrote a couple of years ago the Incans copied the Azteca, but I was wrong. I now believe the Aztecs copied the Incans. One innovation the Incans came up with was denominations. I don't know if they made other sizes, but the group I purchased had three clearly different sizes. The smallest about 1.5 wide by 2cm. Medium about 2.5 by 3.5 cm. Largest around 3.5 by 5cm. I am not aware of any Aztec pieces coming in denominations. The are typical spade shape. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Incans living in Ecuador made these. I wish you luck finding any. After I heard about them, took me a decade to find any for sale anywhere, and I was lucky Agora auctions listed one group. I bid like 8 times over what I ended up paying for them. While the quantity is large, unfortunately many are fused together from being buried together. They still have old strings around some groups, which I believe may be original from the burial 500 years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 7812259, member: 26302"]Don't have a picture here. I wrote a couple of years ago the Incans copied the Azteca, but I was wrong. I now believe the Aztecs copied the Incans. One innovation the Incans came up with was denominations. I don't know if they made other sizes, but the group I purchased had three clearly different sizes. The smallest about 1.5 wide by 2cm. Medium about 2.5 by 3.5 cm. Largest around 3.5 by 5cm. I am not aware of any Aztec pieces coming in denominations. The are typical spade shape. The Incans living in Ecuador made these. I wish you luck finding any. After I heard about them, took me a decade to find any for sale anywhere, and I was lucky Agora auctions listed one group. I bid like 8 times over what I ended up paying for them. While the quantity is large, unfortunately many are fused together from being buried together. They still have old strings around some groups, which I believe may be original from the burial 500 years ago.[/QUOTE]
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